Though I, too, am inclined to think there is no particular conspiracy in this case, how does your intervention help reveal the truth? It shuts down conversation, makes a judgment about a person, and fails to enumerate the reasons against conspiratorial thinking. Opinions are no good unless they are backed up by sound reasoning.
In INGO, frequently people are just expressing their opinions rather than making a case for them. This means that participating in this forum is tantamount to a form of socialization, because it is about sharing, not about putting beliefs to the test of the mind. If we want INGO to be a social club, then keep expressing and forming some sort of vague consensus. (Look at all the threads that rag on the "antis." They are just a gun owner's version of touchy-feely "safe space," not places to take a hard look at the heavy responsibility of gun ownership and gun politics.) If we want INGO to be a place of real discussion, we must allow for well-articulated, reasoned dissent. And we must reciprocate with reason in equal measure.
Da Bing